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A Flutter Best Practice Google Is Hiding, Better Skia Goldens Testing
3 min readDec 10, 2021
he default Skia Goldens testing leaves a lot to be desired in that the only fonts that are loaded is a very skimpy font to show blocks, no way to show all the device forms, and a cumbersome way to inject the root widget above the widget under test.
There is a better practice way to implement Skia Goldens testing, so we get all those problems addressed and cool tool for acceptance testing.
What I am Using
The Dynamic Platform Widgets plugin I am using is:
It dynamically delivers the right widgets to the right platform instead of wiring all that stuff by-hand.
To supply custom fonts for Goldens testing, I go beyond just using the Google Fonts Flutter package:
